Here is the start of the story https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=465364.0, you should be able to complete most of your due diligence from starting there.

You may also like to check out the carboncointalk forum which is there for when we need it but populated with a great deal of useful information, as well as the twitter and facebook accounts which are easily discoverable from our homepage which you can find linked above or by googling Carboncoin.